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Hello,
I'm new to the forum this is my first post. I have a 1988 yamaha v130 on a 18' 1987 Jason fish and ski. I have owned the boat for 5 years now and the motor has always run strong. This past season during my bass tournaments the motor was acting funny intermittently. There is one thing that it does do consistently, after I launch and we sit for a few minutes with the motor idling, when I go to take off, the boat seems to be lacking power. It will get on plane but it takes a while and it doesn't reach WOT speed. After a minute of cruising, the motor will kick right in and pick up full speed with full power. Most of the time it will run great the entire day after that, but once every couple tournaments when I am cruising it will just bog down to a complete stop out of no where and the rpms won't climb at all when in gear. While it's doing this if I take it out of gear and rev it up, it will gain rpm no problem but when I put it back in gear it won't go above a certain rpm right around the 2,000 rpm
mark. Eventually it will gain rpm in gear after a little but I can get it to run fine again. Please if anyone has any idea I would appreciate it as some of the lakes and rivers we fish put me quite a ways from the launch and I can't have a break down during a tournament.
Thank you in advance,
Gino
I'm new to the forum this is my first post. I have a 1988 yamaha v130 on a 18' 1987 Jason fish and ski. I have owned the boat for 5 years now and the motor has always run strong. This past season during my bass tournaments the motor was acting funny intermittently. There is one thing that it does do consistently, after I launch and we sit for a few minutes with the motor idling, when I go to take off, the boat seems to be lacking power. It will get on plane but it takes a while and it doesn't reach WOT speed. After a minute of cruising, the motor will kick right in and pick up full speed with full power. Most of the time it will run great the entire day after that, but once every couple tournaments when I am cruising it will just bog down to a complete stop out of no where and the rpms won't climb at all when in gear. While it's doing this if I take it out of gear and rev it up, it will gain rpm no problem but when I put it back in gear it won't go above a certain rpm right around the 2,000 rpm
mark. Eventually it will gain rpm in gear after a little but I can get it to run fine again. Please if anyone has any idea I would appreciate it as some of the lakes and rivers we fish put me quite a ways from the launch and I can't have a break down during a tournament.
Thank you in advance,
Gino
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